Sunday, October 27, 2024

Fire Bombers, Summer 2024. Natrona County International Airport.

This has been a horrible year for fires. There's nothing good about that whatsoever.


It has made for some interesting plane spotting, however.



Indeed, the airport put in a fire tanker station/base just last year.  That turned out to be, unfortunately, a good thing.





Bombardier CL-215-6B11 (CL-415) water scooper belonging to Aero-Flite Inc.








A C-130 fire bomber.









British Aerospace BAE 146 belonging to Neptune Aviation Services.



Air Tractor.




 

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, October 26, 1944. Gertrude Tompkins Silver.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of ...

Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Imperial Japanese Navy.


Gertrude Tompkins Silver and the P-51D she was flying disappeared in a delivery flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.


She was 33 years old and had jointed the WASPs after a boyfriend died fighting in the RAF.  She was the only WASP pilot to be classified as missing during the Second World War.

Friday, October 25, 2024